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Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions

  

Tools & Checklists

 Contributed by Phil Rabinowitz Edited by Bill Berkowitz

Checklist

Here you will find a checklist summarizing the significant points of the section.


What is a participatory planning approach?

__ You know that a participatory planning approach means that all stakeholders ' voices are heard and respected, and that everyone has some role in decision-making.


What are the advantages of a participatory planning approach?

What are the disadvantages of a participatory planning approach?

__ You've considered the advantages and disadvantages of a participatory planning approach, and decided whether such an approach is right for the intervention you 're planning.


What are the levels of participatory planning?

__ You have identified the possible levels of participatory planning appropriate to your intervention from among the alternatives:

  • Information
  • Consultation
  • Deciding together
  • Acting together
  • Supporting local initiatives


When is participatory planning appropriate, and when isn't it?

__ You've decided what level of participation is appropriate for your intervention.


Who should be involved in a participatory planning process?

__ You have learned how to identify the stakeholders in your community.


What do you have to do to get a participatory planning process up and running?

__ You've identified all the individuals and groups who need to be involved..

__ You've gotten the message about the planning process out to everyone who needs to be informed.

__ You've chosen someone to convene the process.

__ You've held an initial meeting, for which:

__ You've personally invited as many people as possible..

__ You've planned meeting times around the convenience of those attending, rather than the convenience of the organization.

__ You've held the meeting in a place that's convenient and comfortable for everyone involved.

__ You've provided some food and drink.

__ You've considered carefully who'll run the meeting.

__ If the community is multilingual, you've made sure to have translators present, or to present everything in multiple languages, so that everyone feels included.

__ You've planned activities so that everyone at the meeting has a chance to be heard, either in the larger group or in a smaller one..

__ By the end of the meeting, there was a clear next step, and everyone knew what it was.

__ You've chosen someone to guide the planning process.

__ You've decided who will approve a final plan.

__ You've decided how long the planning process will go on.